Why and did you win?
Why and did you win?
No, so....no.
Bandit and proud touches kids wrote:
No, so....no.
Yes. 100's of runners and I was running a race the next morning so did bandit this race but stepped out before I crossed the finish line so didn't get a finishing time. Hurt no one, impeded no one and had a great time plus I had a good official race the next morning.
yes. didn't win but it was my lifetime best in the marathon by ~8 minutes.
why? most of our training group was entered, and it was long run day, so the three of us that weren't marathoners joined the fun planning to run the first 15 with our mates.
felt really good at 15, and still ok thru 20 - so ran to the finish but ran wide of the line to not screw up the results.
Only once. I raced the 10K and during my cool down I ran into an acquaintance who was running the 5K. She asked if I was running the 5K too. I wasn't registered but she was hot so I jogged it with her. There were several thousand people in the race and I stepped off before the finish.
I am firmly against banditing- in my mind it is akin to stealing. But she was hot and I am a weak man. Went out for mimosas afterwards. 10/10 would bandit again.
Many times.
I hear running a race as a bandit is bad news. If you're caught at some races the masses will tar & feather you. And what's up these bandits? I'm a low-income runner & I don't bandit races. Years ago I belonged to a running club that charged a measly 30 bucks a year for a membership fee. This was good for your entry fee into the monthly club race, annual club picnic & online newsletterðŸ‘. Over a period of a few years, this guy would show up and bandit a few of our races. What a chump! He would show up at startline, finish the race and take off never to be seen again until the next race he decided to bandit. The standing club joke was "who was that masked man?" 😄
ThatAverageRunner wrote:
Many times.
A little low on dough?...ðŸ˜
inthefishtank wrote:
Bandit and proud touches kids wrote:No, so....no.
Yes. 100's of runners and I was running a race the next morning so did bandit this race but stepped out before I crossed the finish line so didn't get a finishing time. Hurt no one, impeded no one and had a great time plus I had a good official race the next morning.
C'mon...didn't you feel a little cheesey? And what about the water/gatorade stops? At least give them a donation or something....😉
Bandit and proud wrote:
Why and did you win?
Yes, me and a friend were bandits in a race so we could help our mutual friend run a half marathon. While athletic, our friend wasn't a runner, so it was a long run for us. We crossed the finish line with him, declined the finishers medals and hung out as he enjoyed the free post-race food.
Low Income Runner wrote:
inthefishtank wrote:Yes. 100's of runners and I was running a race the next morning so did bandit this race but stepped out before I crossed the finish line so didn't get a finishing time. Hurt no one, impeded no one and had a great time plus I had a good official race the next morning.
C'mon...didn't you feel a little cheesey? And what about the water/gatorade stops? At least give them a donation or something....😉
No water stops. It was a 5k and it was at least 30 years ago. It was a different running world back then.
One of my previous roommates not only bandited a race, he jumped in with 3 miles to go in a half marathon. Crossed the finish line and took a finishers medal and everything. He was so proud.
We don't live with each other anymore.
Geezer reply:
When I was a kid in the 70s in New England, it was no big deal to run a race bandit. We didn't call it "bandit", we said "unregistered".
Races were held in late afternoon/evening. Most were 5 miles. You show up, pay a few bucks and run. If you don't pay, you just step off the course before the finish. Everybody was happy. Nobody cared. It was low-key, but we still trained hard and competed tooth and nail.
Some races, everybody registered because it was so cheap, two or three bucks.
One time I was allowed to pay my entry after the race, when I saw that I'd get a trophy. I was all of 16, a trophy seemed like a big deal.
I was living in southern Mexico most of the last 10 years. It's largely accepted that you can run bandit there and it's no big deal. Even local small races tend to have prize money. Obviously, you won't get paid if you run bandit.
You committed a crime.
bad roomie wrote:
One of my previous roommates not only bandited a race, he jumped in with 3 miles to go in a half marathon. Crossed the finish line and took a finishers medal and everything. He was so proud.
We don't live with each other anymore.
You suck wrote:
You committed a crime.
bad roomie wrote:One of my previous roommates not only bandited a race, he jumped in with 3 miles to go in a half marathon. Crossed the finish line and took a finishers medal and everything. He was so proud.
We don't live with each other anymore.
We need more sanctuary races where anyone is welcome to partake, courtesy of the fee abiding racers
Yes, Boston 3 times in 1980, 1981, and 1982. I ran to the half way point in 1983 as I had to get to class by 2 pm. Banditting Boston was a huge thing for college students to do back in the day. There was even a bandit corral. I would not do it today - but it is a very different world - both running and non-running.
Yup. And I ain't proud of it.
But at the time, I technically wasn't allowed to race.
Not because of NCAA rules or anything. I was part of something else that didn't allow it. And I was antsy for a race and a friend asked if we wanted to run with him. So naturally, I said yes.
I did once when I first started running and didn't realize how big a deal it can be. I ran the race on a friend's bib and won the race, I remember the kid who came in second was pretty pissed about loosing too. I didn't accept the prize for first and left right after the race ended. At the time I thought nothing of it but now that I've been a part of the running community for a few years I feel pretty bad about it.
Yeah, I ran a race bandit and crushed the field. It was an 8k road race and I didn't know what kind of shape I was in so, didn't have strong expectations of the outcome. I had just been running a little and bike commuting. I'd done zero workouts. Turns out I was in near PR shape and there was a couple guys to pull me along through the first half of the race. I dropped them just past 5k and chased the lead car through the finish.
Kinda disappointed that the competition was bad enough for me to win. I was an intern that was scraping by on a food stipend so, thought I'd just hop in a race for fun.
I ran straight through the finish line too! The finish was part way down a big hill so I cruised on past the race officials and went straight into a cool down. When I came back for my bike, a race official asked who I was and what I was doing. They didn't know people bandit races. They didn't understand the concept. It was kinda a shitty thing to do.
The icing on the cake was the next week at my internship the organization that was putting on the race rented our conference room for a staff retreat. I thought about calling in sick or something but I figured my intern desk was so far away they wouldn't see me. I lucked out on that one.